KennyJ Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 I'm having this problem with drawings not printing the way they look in Autocad. I attached one of the drawings I'm having problems with, maybe one of you can open it and see if you have the same problem, and maybe even know a way to fix it. The problem is clear when you go to print preview all the leaders and numbers and almost any line object wants to print grey instead of the chosen color. PrintTest.dwg Quote
GhostRider Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 typically you need to select a black and white or monochrome pen table in the plot style table of the plotter dialog menu. you have it set to none so the dwg plots the color or greyscale for the red in your drawing. Quote
KennyJ Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 typically you need to select a black and white or monochrome pen table in the plot style table of the plotter dialog menu. you have it set to none so the dwg plots the color or greyscale for the red in your drawing. I have tried every plot style available and created a new one from scratch and keep getting the same results. If I copy everything to a new drawing file everything works but that's not an option way to time consuming. Quote
GhostRider Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 in the plot table editor do are all the pens set to print black ? Quote
KennyJ Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 No, this is an intermittent issue. The drawing was printing just fine before today. This happens to a lot of our drawings at work, I need to figure out why. This exact drawing printed fine on Friday, Today I opened it to fix a typo and when I went to reprint, everything started showing up as grey. I can't find any reason for it in the plot styles, and like I said all I did was open and change a line of text in Mtext. nothing else was changed from the last time it printed and all was fine. Quote
GhostRider Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 yea I see now, sorry I was on the wrong track, I changed the viewports shade plot setting, be set to wireframe instead of as displayed and all red entities plotted black, but not the leaders in paperspace yet Quote
KennyJ Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 If you notice the Hatches in the little box in the bottom right view are black on white until you try to print then it turns grey also Quote
rkent Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Not sure why but the fix is to go into each viewport and change SHADEMODE to 2D. Worked here anyway. Quote
KennyJ Posted January 12, 2009 Author Posted January 12, 2009 Thank you rkent, That fixed it even though it doesn't make any sense. If anyone has an idea as to what would cause this keep me posted. Quote
rkent Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 I normally use STB files so I converted your drawing over to an STB and then I can plot fine with shademode set to hidden, etc. in the viewports. Maybe another reason to move over to the dark side (STB). Quote
OSCGOLF Posted March 3, 2010 Posted March 3, 2010 Not sure why but the fix is to go into each viewport and change SHADEMODE to 2D. Worked here anyway. I've been tracking this problem, on this website and others. I have been having the same problem. This solution, by the way, does not work for me. Quote
J_Cody Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 I also had this problem. I clicked off the "Default" check box under "Map Base" in the Map Task Pane. This corrected the problem. Quote
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